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Tammygirl good luck with your next appointment with GP. Not had HRT but a friend took it and reckoned it was magic. Similar situation to you she threatened to commit murder but it was still taken away. She's not been happy in many ways and finds life tough without it. Radio 4 had something about risks of it recently, m ight be worth a search for it. I'll try myself.
Edit it may have been this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/prigrammes/p035cwml
Sorry once again it gives an error.
Search on radio iPlayer or sounds as it's been renamed brings up woman's hour programmes on it too. Knowledge is power 😉
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Each of our 3 house moves have been very different. Our first house after we moved back to UK from Norway was bought while we were staying with OH's parents. The house was basically fine, but the decor was terrible......orange gloss paint on the stairwell walls, dark purple in the lounge, and red wallpaper with white horses in the dining room!
We only moved in once we had redecorated everywhere and fitted new carpets where required.
With our second move, we moved out the week before we moved in, OH and DS stayed with her parents and I stayed in our caravan which we had loaned to friends who were building a house, as I still had a final week at my old work. Furniture was stored for a couple of weeks to give us time to decorate and get carpets once we got the keys.
Our third move was to our present house, which we had built to our design, and we spent 12 months in a rented place with half our stuff in storage. The electricity was only connected the day we moved in, the gas the day after, and the carpets failed to arrive on time.
Many do move out and in on the same day, or stay with relatives and store furniture if that is not possible. DS and family had a week between moving in and moving out, to do some decorating and get some new carpets, he arranged a bridging loan.
DD has been very lucky as her brother was able to assist with what we thought would be a short term loan, enabling her to get entry and start getting the place sorted before moving out of the old house.
Unfortunately there has turned out to be more work to do than originally anticipated, and the selling of the old house has taken MUCH longer than expected.
Just as well she does not have an actual bridging loan! She will however have been paying 2 mortgages for 4 months.
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Hopefully this will post, keep getting an internal server error.☹️
Today very cold and started off with heavy snow here in the Cotswolds, although not much stuck. Decided on a trip to Cheltenham, where we might get a bit more protection from the biting wind. Had an interesting explore, lunch in John Lewis, stocked up on Nespresso pods and visited the birthplace of Gustav Holst. Had no idea he hailed from a small terraced house in Cheltenham. There is also a statue of him in the town. He only spent the first few years of his life in the house, however it is now preserved, by a charitable trust, as it would have been when he lived there. It contains many of his possessions donated by his daughter, including the piano, bought for £12, on which he composed the Planets Suite.
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There was a lovely BBC programme the other night about the friendship between Holst and Vaughan Williams. The music and some of the filming on the Malverns was beautifully done.
Just been out to see Show of Hands, wow! A really good evening. They're in Norwich tomorrow, final stint is Exmouth.
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Thanks Steve. I only recently realised that we was born and brought up in England.
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Holst was organist at Th after church in Essex and I believe was at the time of writing the planet suite.
I do hope I've remembered correctly, school was a long time ago 😂😂.
Our houses at senior school were named for local famous folk. One was named after Holst, Clausen the painter worked in Lindsell. Lukin, Lionel Lukin designed and built the first self righting lifeboat in Great Dunmow - testing it on The Doctors Pond which still exists as was today 🙂 and Wells for H G Wells authour, having trouble recalling where he fitted in but possibly Thaxted.
Very frosty here this morning was frosty by 8.30pm last night - but was dripping in the mist/low cloud by 0830 am. Not had snow here or the chilly wind as yet 😉.
OH brighter this morning so hopefully that's it. Chores and decent dog walk before taking mum for hospital appointment at 4.15 pm, last time clinic running an hour behind and appointment was 11am - wonder what the chances of being seen on time are? 😂😂
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Another dull and grey day but not as wet as previous days. Have to go out food shopping today fridge is looking empty.
OH doing his ironing at the moment while I have a catch up on here.
Glad OH feeling better today Bakers, hope you Mums appointment goes well and is on time
I'm trying to get an appointment with my female Dr (not easy) been offered 5th Dec.
but if I ring at 8am I might get an on the day appointment. Problem is she only works part time and is a very popular Dr. The HRT patches I'm on I've just found out are no longer being made by the same company and the new company are not releasing any until Feb. next year 
I need them now, so having to go back to see Dr and try and get prescription changed to something else. This on top of the male Dr insisting he thinks I should come off them stress levels going through the roof, head banging. Think I will have to take something, didn't get a good sleep last night. 0 -
We don't have a down stairs toilet despite our house only being 40 years old. We currently thinking about building a small extension on the back of our utility room to house a downstairs toilet. It will be a tad more expensive that a stair lift but hopefully should add a little value to the house. Fortunately we don't need it at the moment but just planning ahead. When we moved in we were both in our early thirties so I don't suppose it crossed our minds that one day we might need a downstairs loo!!! About ten years after we moved in we extended the house which included a second bathroom and that is when we should have given it more thought and it would have saved us some money!!!
David
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My elderly neighbours are the opposite, they have a downstairs bathroom but no room for an upstairs loo. I am amazed they have managed into a great age with this arrangement but should one of them have problems at least they could sleep downstairs with easy access to the bathroom. Previously the row of three cottages had a row of three privies at the back, the furthest away had quite a sprint across the gardens!
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Had a relatively easy journey over to Bury and back..
Sat here looking over my N.I. Contributions history when the phone rang. Lady caller didn't allow me to introduce myself but just said that my order was now in (in the ladies clothing store in town). I assured her in my deepest voice that I would be in to collect my bra quite soon and left her curled up with laughter and embarrassment. MIL is a favoured customer. Nice to know someone's happy with their work.
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What a good idea Husky. I hope you are successful.
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Really cold frosty start this morning ,but then went downhill and is now damp and misty
Two hospital appointments now finished one more in Dec
Needed medication review so tried to get anti flu injection at Doc as well but advised none are now available as NHS England will not supply any more? only now available via local Pharmacies,so now booked in there and earliest app is 7th Dec
several of us have been wondering why there have been 4 oldish box vans parked in area,saw our local PCSO when in local Coop, and she advised it is a growing trend, they are all taxed and insured, and are being used as Storage as it is cheaper than useing commercial storage facilities
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I hope all your hospital appointments go well JVB. A friend was telling me this morning that her GP surgery have run out of flu jabs and she has failed to get it done after 3 trips to their flu clinic. She had booked into her local pharmacy this afternoon where they had assured her that they had reserved one for her. Gosh that's different to use box vans as storage! It must be a nuisance to have them parked in your local area. I hope it isn't a growing trend. You are very lucky to have a local PSCO - we haven't seen one for ages.
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Didn't realise that that that was still on the box, I used to really like it, one of the few decent programmes that there were.
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A friend was telling me this morning that her GP surgery have run out of flu jabs and she has failed to get it done after 3 trips to their flu clinic. She had booked into her local pharmacy this afternoon where they had assured her that they had reserved one for her.
We'd booked our jab a couple of weeks ago, while we were away, and got them yesterday. Talking to the practice nurse she said that they'd not long received their first batch and were well behind with the number of patients wanting them. It seems that there's only one supplier of the vaccine in this country, and they are having trouble keeping up with the demand.
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several of us have been wondering why there have been 4 oldish box vans parked in area,saw our local PCSO when in local Coop, and she advised it is a growing trend, they are all taxed and insured, and are being used as Storage as it is cheaper than useing commercial storage facilitiessurprised
Might be worth talking to your local Councillor. My Sister in Law had a problem with a long flatbed recovery vehicle always parked on the side of her house which made it fifficult to access her parking space. My son spoke to the local Council and the Councillor and it was gone within days. It might be worth checking they are taxed and insured especially if left without being moved. There is an App called Vehicle Smart that can tell you if they are!!!
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Is the number of folks wanting to be vaccinated a surprise to the NHS? Since they've been doing it for years and encouraging folk to take up the vaccine you'd have thought they would have a jolly good idea of the amount of doses they need and sort a supplier capable of fulfilling the requirements! 😤😢
Whoops I've gone into silly mode again 😂😂😂
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To some extent the problems with supply of the flu vaccine have been made worse by the fact you can also have it at the pharmacy. At least that's what we were told, when we arrived for our jab and they had run out. Apparently deliveries were phased, rather than front loaded and GP surgeries had to put orders in in some time ago. They had no idea how many were going to get it done at the pharmacy when they were told they had missed the fist wave at the surgery, and if they get left with stock there is a cost. Hence why some ran out yet again. We were lucky and received ours a few weeks ago, at the second time of asking.
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But that would mean thinking ahead and planning Bakers2. I am not sure the NHS is capable of that.
.I am glad you got your jabs OK Nellie. We got ours done at the first flu clinic held at our GP surgery a couple of months ago. We had to queue for 40 minutes to get in though
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I've made an executive decision not have the flu jab this time round, a friend of mine who is a retired nurse thinks this is awful and that I will be spreading bugs around. This year I've had two really nasty long lasting cold/flu type viruses that lasted for weeks, in fact much of our village was knocked out with illness earlier in the year, very unpleasant, some were hospitalised. I am now working on the theory that if the Scots wait till 75 for their flu jabs I might do the same.
You can say "I told you so" if anything happens. Just don't sneeze over me...we were in our theatre restaurant the other night with two men nearby on each side of us, hacking coughs and loud sneezing through the meal, what chances have I got?
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